Delaware contractor business license lookup

Search statewide resident and nonresident contractor business licenses by business name or verify a known number. Review the source limits before relying on a match.

Verify a contractor license

Free public lookup: up to 10 search or verification requests per IP each UTC day.

Results are informational and should be confirmed against the official Delaware Division of Revenue record before making a hiring or compliance decision.

Authority

Delaware Division of Revenue

Live coverage

Statewide resident and nonresident contractor business licenses

Refresh cadence

Weekly Thursday at 10:20 AM Pacific

Source and coverage

StateLicense downloads the official Division of Revenue business-license dataset and selects resident and nonresident contractor activities. Multiple trade names for one license are combined for search. Confirm current standing with the Division of Revenue.

Review a result

Compare the contractor business license number, business identity, status, classifications, and dates with the official Delaware Division of Revenue record before a consequential decision.

Information returned by the lookup

Information	Availability
Business-license number	When supplied by the authority
Legal and trade names	When supplied by the authority
Resident or nonresident activity	When supplied by the authority
Current term dates	When supplied by the authority
Mailing location	When supplied by the authority
Source freshness	When supplied by the authority

Freshness: Weekly Thursday at 10:20 AM Pacific. Field availability depends on the source record; unavailable values are not inferred.

Need Delaware contractor data programmatically?

Add the same source-linked records to onboarding, compliance, or internal operations workflows through the live StateLicense API.

Use the Delaware contractor business license API →

Production APILive

curl --request POST "https://api.statelicense.io/v1/search" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "state": "DE",
  "business_name": "ACME",
  "page_size": 5
}'

Representative response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "state": "DE",
      "license_number": "LICENSE_NUMBER",
      "business_name": "Example Contractor",
      "status": "active",
      "authority": "Delaware Division of Revenue",
      "license_type": "Source-specific type",
      "source_updated_at": "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "page": 1
}

Free dashboard and API access

Free accounts include an API key and 25 authenticated dashboard or API requests per UTC month.

Coverage limitations

• This is a business license, not a trade qualification or permit.
• The current-only dataset omits historical and adverse records; active status is inferred only when the license term covers the source revision and import date.

Delaware contractor business license lookup FAQ

What does Delaware coverage include?

Statewide resident and nonresident contractor business licenses. This is a business license, not a trade qualification or permit. The current-only dataset omits historical and adverse records; active status is inferred only when the license term covers the source revision and import date.

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